...Peter Petros; Bernhard Liedl; Ahmet Akin Sivaslioglu; Klaus Goeschen; Hiromi Inoue; Yuki Sekiguchi; Burghard Abendstein; Dmitry Shkarupa; Nikita Kubin Background: This work had its origins in the 1990s, when women having collagen-creating midurethral slings for stress urinary incontinence (SUI...

... bioreactor system based on seamless, collagenous, tubular OPTIMAIX 3D prototype sponge as scaffold material for ex-vivo culturing of a tissue engineered ureter replacement for future urological applications. Particular emphasis was given to a great extent to mimic the physiological environment similar...

...B. Uvelius; P. Lindner; A. Mattiasson A partial urethral obstruction was induced in female rats. After 6 weeks, detrusor weight had increased eightfold and collagen concentration had decreased to about 40% compared to controls. Due to the weight gain, the total amount of detrusor collagen had...